The Imperfect Friend: Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, Milton and Their ConextsUniversity of Toronto Press, 3. 5. 2008 - Počet stran: 400 Many writers in early modern England drew on the rhetorical tradition to explore affective experience. In The Imperfect Friend, Wendy Olmsted examines a broad range of Renaissance and Reformation sources, all of which aim to cultivate 'emotional intelligence' through rhetorical means, with a view to understanding how emotion functions in these texts. In the works of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), John Milton (1608-1674), and many others, characters are depicted conversing with one another about their emotions. While counselors appeal to objective reasons for feeling a certain way, their efforts to shape emotion often encounter resistance. This volume demonstrates how, in Renaissance and Reformation literature, failures of persuasion arise from conflicts among competing rhetorical frameworks among characters. Multiple frameworks, Olmsted argues, produce tensions and, consequently, an interiorized conflicted self. By situating emotional discourse within distinct historical and socio-cultural perspectives, The Imperfect Friend sheds new light on how the writings of Sidney, Milton, and others grappled with problems of personal identity. From their innovations, the study concludes, friendship emerges as a favourite site of counseling the afflicted and perturbed. |
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... heroic mind displays . ' Stella , the embodiment of good- ness , overthrows ' all vices ' ' not by rude force , but sweetest soveraigntie / Of reason ' ( Sonnet 71 , lines 5-7 ) . Her beauty draws minds to her and turns them to good ...
... heroic models , and still others that his approach is Prot- estant . For example , whereas John M. Steadman claims that Milton made Satan an archaic hero in order to indict ' Homer and his imitators for investing their heroes with ...
... heroic action in the face of error and public disapproval . Because this love is grounded in self - knowledge and contemplation , its failure to be realized through action cannot destroy it . When Musidorus and Pyrocles find themselves ...
... heroic Stoic ' disdain ' against ' adversity ' ( 370.4 ) , but falls to her knees and pleads for Musidorus's life with tears when they are captured by a mob ( 310.2ff . ) . A modest , silent , almost childlike woman , Philoclea gives ...
... heroic poetry plants the image in the mind.20 The image ' teacheth and moveth to the most high and excellent truth , ' namely , ' magnanimity and justice , ' the classical virtues that poetry makes ' shine through all misty fearfulness ...
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